'I never saw it coming': LeAnn Rimes' ex-husband Dean Sheremet opens up about her cheating scandal and admits they 'don't really talk that much' now

Dean Sheremet got the shock of his life when his wife called him one day in 2009 to admit she had been cheating on him.

That's fairly bad if you're just a regular Joe. But Dean wasn't. He was married to country star LeAnn Rimes and the news of her infidelity with actor Eddie Cibrian was about to appear on the cover of a national magazine, which just intensified the humiliation.

Dean, who had met LeAnn at the Academy of
Country Music Awards in 2001 and married her the following year,
separated from his wife just months after news of her affair leaked.

Happily engaged: Eddie and LeAnn with Kris Jenner (far left) about a month before their April 2011 wedding

They divorced in June 2010 after spending several months negotiating the terms of their difficult split

The scandal was headline news for months with Eddie's wife Brandi Glanville lashing out at LeAnn on Twitter.

All
the press helped make the spurned wife a star. She parlayed her
newfound fame into a starring role on The Real Housewives Of Beverly
Hills where the former model used every opportunity she could to trash
her ex.

Complicating
matters, Eddie and Brandi, both 40, had two sons - Mason, 10, and Jake,
aged six - and the country singer was branded a homewrecker. Meetings at
the boys' soccer games were reportedly tense.

Still going strong: The once scandal-rocked couple holding hands in March (left) and cuddling in early October (right)

But the storm between the single mother and the criticized couple (they married in 2011) has since calmed down.

On Wednesday the Bravo star told E!, 'As far as I know, we're fine. I see them at soccer, I say hello, and I don't really have any other interactions with them.'

Dean moved on as well, and just four months after LeAnn tied the knot with Eddie, he did the same with photographer Sarah Silver, 37.

Bitter relations: When the country singer left Dean for Eddie, she ticked off the actor's wife Brandi Glanville, who she's seen with here at a soccer game in 2012

Boys caught in the middle: The reality star with Mason, 10, and Jake, aged six (left), and the actor with his younger son (right)

The former dancer admits he hasn't stayed in close contact with his ex-wife.

'We don't really talk that much,' he said.

'There's not really a need to. I don't really know what we would talk about.'

Instead of regretting the scandal, the budding chef has come to peace with it.

'It's fine because I've really laid low during the whole thing,' he explains.

'It's part of my story and it's the reason that I get to do awesome cooking segments. Whatever it is that gets me in the door is fine. I'm really a chef!'

Meanwhile, RadarOnline has reported that the Reel Love actress has been trying to get pregnant with Eddie's baby and that's why she's put on a few pounds recently.

She's also been focusing on performing. LeAnn has a concert on October 22 in Nashville, Tennessee, and will be making appearances all over the country till the end of the year.

Trying for a baby? There have been reports the Drop Dead Diva actress, seen here on Thursday, has gained weight recently because she's hoping to get pregnant